More Memory Parity Error

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1 total messages Started by Wailin' Across the Nets Sat, 05 May 1990 22:31

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Author: Wailin' Across the Nets
Date: Sat, 05 May 1990 22:31

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	After a fun saturday morning spent with the chip puller, I have
discovered a few other things about my parity problem.

	* Switching ram chips does not help the problem
	* Running the system at slow speed (4.77) shows no errors

	I am using v2.03 of Brown Bags RAMTEST to check my memory, booting
	up with Zenith DOS 3.3  I have a NEC v-20 CPU.

	Another symptom of this error is that XCOPY dies messily when copying
files with the /v VERIFY option enabled.  Without verify it runs fine, but
with verify on a large (~300K) file it crashes to monitor or reboots.

	I'm going to swap the 8088 chip back in to check as soon as I get the
chip back.  *** Memory Parity Failure *** is starting to bug me.

	Why would 8Mhz cause chips (the board ?) to fail?

				(Why don't I just sell this machine.....)

				banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU

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